How to delete a page from a PDF

Scanners love to add a blank final page, and contracts often carry pages you have no reason to forward. Taking pages out is the most common PDF edit there is.

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Whichever tool you use here, the file stays on your device. How that works

Step by step

  1. 1Add the PDF and check its physical page count. Page 1 means the first file page, not a printed label.
  2. 2Enter a range such as 1-3, 7, 10-12 or select page thumbnails.
  3. 3Extract the selected pages as one PDF and inspect the saved result.
  4. 4Choose every-page splitting for one PDF per page. Repeat extraction with different ranges for several multi-page documents.

Keep what you want, rather than removing what you do not

Deleting here means extracting pages you want to keep. Illustrative example: omit page 4 of six by extracting 1-3,5-6. The original still contains the omitted page; send the newly saved result.

Ranges use physical page indices. Nonexistent pages are ignored and repeated numbers are removed.

All content on a kept page remains. Selecting pages is not redaction.

Checking the result

To drop page 4 of a 10 page document, choose Keep certain pages and enter 1-3, 5-10. You can also press All and then click the page you want to leave out. Either way, the saved file should have one page fewer than the original, so count them.

The original is not changed. If you removed the wrong page, go back to it and run the tool again. For several pages at once, list the ranges you want to keep, such as 1-2, 5-7, 9.

Questions

Can one range produce several multi-page files?

No. It creates one selected-page PDF. Repeat with another range, or use every-page splitting for individual files.

What if the merge fails?

A file that needs a password to open must be unlocked first with Protect PDF. If a very large merge runs out of memory, join the files in two stages and then join the two results.

Can I delete several pages at once?

Yes. List the ranges you want to keep, with the pages to drop simply left out, and save.

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